Thursday, Oct. 5, 6-9 p.m.: “”Method for Modern”” – Design Within Reach – 393 7th Ave. San Diego, CA 92101 – 619.744.9900
Design Within Reach (a nationwide contemporary furniture gallery) has produced more than shiny streamlined furniture this season. DWR attempts to step outside its commercial market niche and branch into the noncommercial world of emerging art.
The studio introduces a potentially interesting exhibition of local artists in their exhibit “”Method for Modern,”” opening Oct. 5. The show will feature the works of David Adey, Tibora Girczyc-Blum, Meegan Nolan Cuzick, Charles Erwin, Sharon Levy, Marko Manriquez, Adam Moyer, Kelli Murray, Jorge Tellaeche and Robert Twomey.
Thursday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.: “”Thursday Night Thing”” – MCASD – 001 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101 – 619.234.1001
While MCASD Downtown is still closed for renovations (a new space is opening January 2007), “”Thursday Night Thing”” is ongoing. This month’s event will feature an innovative use of the outdoor space, inviting visitors to bring their own unframed, non-matted works on paper to exhibit on the terrace wall. In the outdoor gallery, experience live drawing (Is it performance? Or is it drawing?) by local artists Kelsey Brookes, Jeremy Farson, Josh Hassin, Dave Kinsey, Joshua Krausse and Iana Quesnell. Live performers include the Album Leaf and Qu’est-ce Que C’est, two San Diego bands. If you’re still unsatisfied with aforementioned music, head to the iPod lounge with your tunes and create a five-song playlist for your own 15 minutes of fame.
Continues through March 27, 2007: “”Body Ornamentation”” – SD Museum of Man – 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park San Diego, CA 92101 – 619.239.2001
If neither DWR or TNT appeal to your premodernist aesthetics, then the Museum of Man’s ongoing exhibition “”Body Ornamentation: Artistic Representations of Self”” may be more enticing. An escape from acronyms and the new, local art scene, “”Body Ornamentation”” instead ventures into the historic and universal world of tattoos.
The exhibit explores the multiple ways in which humans have used the body as a canvas, spanning cultures and geography to present designs in body painting, tattooing, scarification and piercing. Perhaps art and anthropology aren’t such different fields after all.
